Market Infrastructure
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484HK SFC Sees Criminal Charges Surge
Editors, Regulation Asia December 7, 2017Securities regulator laid 42 charges in 6 months to end-September this year, up 180% from same period in 2016, but commenced far fewer investigations.
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526BoJ Expects Large IT Firms to Become Systemically Important
Samuel Riding, Regulation Asia December 7, 2017Haruhiko Kuroda says global IT platform providers could pose systemic risk through holding vast amounts of data, adds to warnings on algo contagion.
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497Singapore Releases SIBOR Benchmark Reform Proposals
Garima Chitkara, Regulation Asia December 7, 2017Consultation is based on IOSCO principles, FSB recommendations, comes four years after 20 banks disciplined for benchmark manipulation.
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658MiFID II – Banks Struggle to Survive the Transparency
Peter Guy, Regulation Asia December 6, 2017Liquidity requires symmetric information, which is easiest to achieve when everyone is ignorant.
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737ESMA to Bring 3rd-country CRAs, Trade Repositories Under EU Supervision
Samuel Riding, Regulation Asia December 4, 2017ESMA executive director Verena Ross says more than 200 non-EU trading venues have asked for exemptions from MiFID II post-trade transparency, position limits.
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572Australia to Kick off Long-awaited Royal Commission into Financial Sector
Editors, Regulation Asia December 4, 2017Inquiry to look into alleged misconduct in financial sector welcomed by banks, securities regulator, but not superannuation scheme operators.
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MAS Warns of ‘Medium-term’ Cross-border Financial Stability Risks
Editors, Regulation Asia December 4, 2017Annual report into stability of financial system says domestic and regional lending improving, no signs of credit market overheating.
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4.5KAsian Firms at Risk of Drowning Under Wave of Regulation from US, Europe
David Farmery, Message Automation, Broadridge November 30, 2017The wave of financial regulation about to wash over Europe and North America could eventually overwhelm Asian institutions.
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580SGX Revamping Securities Settlement Processes
Editors, Regulation Asia November 30, 2017Exchange consultation proposes move to T+2 settlement, simultaneous securities, money settlement in bid to prevent systemic risk.
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Singapore, Abu Dhabi to Cooperate on Banking Supervision, Markets, Fintech
Editors, Regulation Asia November 27, 2017Middle Eastern regulator has already approved one Singapore firm to provide credit services; Singapore firm won Fintech challenge.
